~ Obiter Dicta from Rake & Friends

Don Imus is gone.

After giving Imus a two-week suspension, the radio network finally relented in the face of on-going pressure for minority leaders and others.

Imus initially was given the suspension for calling the Rutgers women’s basketball team “nappy-headed hos” on the air last week

“There has been much discussion of the effect language like this has on our young people, particularly young women of color trying to make their way in this society,” CBS President and Chief Executive Officer Leslie Moonves said in announcing the decision. “That consideration has weighed most heavily on our minds as we made our decision.”

Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, both of whom were adamant that CBS fire Imus, met with Moonves earlier today.

Several sponsors, including American Express Co., Sprint Nextel Corp., Staples Inc., Procter & Gamble Co., and General Motors Corp., had said they were pulling ads from Imus’ show indefinitely. The show was reportedly worth $15 million in annual revenues to CBS.

According to the AP story, Imus’ troubles have also affected his wife, author Deirdre Imus, whose household cleaning guide, “Green This!” came out this week. Her promotional tour has been called off “because of the enormous pressure that Deirdre and her family are under,” said Simon & Schuster publicist Victoria Meyer.

I must be the only black man on Imus’ side right now but I don’t care. Over the last week I have been watching the television in disgust as Al “I have my hair permed so it looks like a white man’ Sharpton attempts to talk for the entire race yet again. This in my opinion shows how weak minded my own black people are now lets be practical if this was a black radio host saying those blond bimbos from the San Diego volleyball team would there be an uproar…. NO. So lets see here what part of what he said was racist “nappy headed” OR “hoes”. Last I checked when black people don’t spend have their day focused on their hair it is naturally thick coarse and yet NAPPY so how is that racist. If you call a white person’s hair bone straight is that offensive. And last a check anyone can be a hoe so where is the controversy. Al and Jeese need to march every time there is less than a 80% attendance rate at the PTA meetings of black schools or maybe march every time a black man kills another black man, until then he needs to SHUT THE FUCK UP white people will never respect black people until black people respect each other.